Handbook of Teees of the Noetiikkx Statks and Canada. 



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This stately Hickory occasionally attains 

 the height of 120 ft. and 3 or 4 ft. in dianicter 

 of trunk. When growing apart from other 

 trees it develops an oblong or subovoiil top 

 with drooping lower branches and with huge 

 handsome leaves. Its trunk is vested in very 

 much the same kind of shaggy gray bark that 

 is seen on the Shag-hark trunks, though the 

 long scales as a rule do not curve outward as 

 much as do those of that species. It is also 

 more distinctly a tree of the bottom-lands (tor 

 which reason it is sonietiines called the Bot- 

 tom Shell-bark) associating there with the 

 Cottonwood. Hackberry, Slippery Kim, Pep- 

 peridge, Sweet Gum, Swamp White and Burr 

 Oaks, Black and Red ifaples, etc. 



Its wood, of wliich a cubic foot when abso- 

 lutely dry weighs 50. .53 lbs., is verj' similar to 

 that of the Shag-bark in properties and valued 

 for tool-handles, agricultural implements, etc. 2 

 The nuts are not considered quite as delicate 

 as those of the Shag-bark in flavor and they 

 do not generally command quite as high a 

 price in the trade. 



Lravrs IL^-'Jt in. lonj^, the stout petioles often 

 persisting late into the winter; leflcts 7 (ex- 

 ceptionally .5 or 9), oblong lanceolate to obovate, 

 usually ohliriue at base (excepting the terminal), 

 serrate acuminate at apex, rlarlf green above, paler 

 and pubescent beneath. Fluinrn in May : stami- 

 nate with central calyx lobe narrow and twice as 

 long as the lateral ones. Fruit solitary or 2 or 

 3 together, ohlong, 1%-2V_. in. long with thick 

 woody husl; and co,mpressed thick-shelled .yellowish 

 white nut lVi-~Vi in- lone with prominent stout 

 point at base ; seed bright brown, rich and 

 delicious. 



1, Syn. Carya sulcata Nutt, 



2, A. W., Ill, 64. 



